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How Elon & Jensen Work: 50 Principles
Company-building principles from Elon Musk and Jensen Huang
Why This Exists
These are the principles I reference constantly when building companies. Elon's 31 principles come from the Founders Podcast episode where David Senra synthesized 30 years of Elon's career into 90 minutes. Jensen's 19 principles come from "The Nvidia Way" by Tae Kim.
I wanted them in one place, formatted for quick reference:something I could pull up during hard decisions or when I need a reset on what actually matters.
The core ideas: The Algorithm (question everything → delete → simplify → accelerate → automate), mission-first thinking, and speed of light benchmarking (judge against theoretical maximum, not competitors).
What's Inside
- 🔴The Algorithm:Elon's 5-step process for everything
- 🚀31 Elon Principles:From "mission comes first" to "delete, delete, delete"
- 🟢19 Jensen Principles:Speed of light framework, T5T emails, flat orgs
- 🎯Priority System:Rule of Three (only 3 top priorities at any time)
- ⚡CEO's Weekly Method:Find the bottleneck, parachute onto it
View the Principles
The full document is an interactive page with all 50 principles, formatted for quick scanning. Tesla red for Elon, NVIDIA green for Jensen.
Open Principles ↗Sources
- • Founders Podcast:David Senra on Elon Musk
- • "The Nvidia Way" by Tae Kim
- • Marc Andreessen on "The Elon Method"
- • Peter Thiel, "Zero to One"